Module 2 (Fungi) Flashcards
The cell walls od fungi are made of?
Chitin
Single celled organisms of fungi are called?
Yeasts
Multicellular organisms of fungi are called?
Mushrooms
Filamentous organisms of fungi are called?
Molds
Fungi store food energy as?
Glycogen
At 37 degrees the fungus are?
Yeastlike
At 25 degrees the fungus are?
Moldlike
Predator/ predacious fungi feed on a?
Nematode or roundworm
Fungi are capable of metabolizing complex carbohydrates such as?
Lignin
Fungi grow better in an environment with a ph level of ?
5
All molds are _ while yeast are _
Aerobic, facultative anaerobes
Body of fungi that is composed of highly branched and intertwined hyphae called?
Thallus
Most fungi have a vegetative structure (except yeast) called?
Mycelium
A system of rigid,branched tube like filament that encloses the mycelium is called?
Hyphae
Cross walls that form compartments that have pores for movement of cytoplasm are called?
Septa
What do you call hyphae with septa?
Septate
Hyphae without septa are called?
Aseptate or coenocytic
What do you cl the horizontal hyphae that connects group of hyphae to each other?
Stolons
The rootlike parts of hyphae that anchor the fungus are called?
Rhizoids
Asexual reproduction occurs by?
Elongation of hyphae
Production of asexual spores
Division or budding of single cells
The type of asexual spores that formed within sporangium or sac at the end of aerial hyphae (sporangiophores) are called?
Sporangiospores
What do you call the asexu spores that are not enclosed by a sac abd are produced in a chain at the end of the conidiophores?
Conidiospores
What do you call the thick walled soore formed by rounding and enlargement in a hyphal segment?
Chlamydospore
The but that fails to detach themselves are called?
Pseudohypha